Tom Sizemore Quotes

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

I am not as crazy as people think.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.